Introduction to Literature James P. Zappen Selected Bibliography A. Contemporary U.S. Literature 1. Literature Barthelme, Donald. Forty Stories. 1987. Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 2005. —. Sixty Stories. 1982. Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 2003. Carver, Raymond. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Stories. 1976. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2015. Choi, Susan. Trust Exercise: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt & Company, Holt Paperbacks, 2019. Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. 2007. New York: Penguin Random House, Riverhead Trade Paperbacks, 2008. —. Drown. 1996. New York: Penguin Group, Riverhead Books, 1997. —. This Is How You Lose Her. New York: Penguin Group, Riverhead Books, 2012. Díaz, Junot, and Leo Espinosa. Islandborn. New York: Penguin Group, Dial Books, 2018. Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel. 2014. London: HarperCollins, Fourth Estate, 2015. Egan, Jennifer. “Black Box.” The New Yorker, June 4 and 11, 2012. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box-2 —. Emerald City: Stories. 1993. Random House, Anchor Books, 2007. —. The Invisible Circus: A Novel. 1995. Random House, Anchor Books, 2007. —. The Keep: A Novel. 2006. Random House, Anchor Books, 2007. —. Look at Me: A Novel. 2001. New York: Random House, Anchor Books, 2002. —. Manhattan Beach: A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, Scribner, 2017. —. A Visit from the Goon Squad. 2010. New York: Random House, Anchor Books, 2011. Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text. 1929, 1984. New York: Vintage Books, Vintage International Edition, 1990. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York: Scribner, 2004. —. I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories. Ed. Anne Margaret Daniel. New York: Simon & Schuster, Scribner, 2017. 1 —. Tales of the Jazz Age. Ed. James L. W. West III. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. —. Tender Is the Night. 1933. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Scribner Trade Paperback, 2003. Ford, Richard. Independence Day. 1995. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 1996. —. A Multitude of Sins: Stories. 2001. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2003. —. The Sportswriter. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 1986. Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Picador, 2010. Greer, Andrew Sean. Less: A Novel. New York: Little, Brown, Lee Boudreaux Book, 2017. Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Book, 2016. Harding, Paul. Tinkers. New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. Hemmingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. The Hemingway Library Edition. 1929. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Scribner Trade Paperback, 2014. —. The Sun Also Rises. 1926. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Scribner Trade Paperback, 2006. Johnson, Adam. Fortune Smiles: Stories. New York: Penguin Random House, Random House, 2015. —. The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel. New York: Random House, Random House Trade Paperback, 2012. Lish, Atticus. Preparation for the Next Life. New York: Tyrant Books, 2014. Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers: A Novel. New York: Penguin Random House, Random house, 2016. McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Volume 1: The Border Trilogy. 1992. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 1993. —. The Road. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2006. Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem. 1949. New York: Viking Press, Compass Books, 1958. —. Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem. 1949. New York: Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 1976. Millhauser, Steven. The Barnum Museum: Stories. Poseidon Press, 1990. New York: Dalkey Archive Press, 1997. 2 —. Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2009. —. The Knife Thrower and Other Stories. 1998. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 1999. —. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. 1996. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 1997. —. Voices in the Night: Stories. 2015. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2016. —. We Others: New and Selected Stories. 2011. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2012. Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer: A Novel. New York: Grove Press, 2015. O’Neill, Joseph. The Dog: A Novel. 2014. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2015. —. Netherland. 2008. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2009. Pardlo, Gregory. Digest. New York: Four Way Books, 2014. Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. 1965. New York: HarperCollins, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. —. Gravity’s Rainbow. 1973. New York: Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 1987. —. Inherent Vice. 2009. New York: Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 2010. —. Slow Learner: Early Stories. 1984. New York: Little, Brown, Back Bay Books, 1985. Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead: A Novel. 2004. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Picador, 2005. —. Home. New York: 2008. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Picador, 2009. —. Housekeeping. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Picador, 1980. Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories. 1959. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage International Edition, 1993. Russo, Richard. Elsewhere: A Memoir. 2012. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 2013. —. Empire Falls. 2001. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 2002. Saunders, George. Tenth of December: Stories. Penguin Random House, Random House Trade Paperback, 2013. Silber, Joan. Improvement: A Novel. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2017. Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. 1952. New York: Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 1992. 3 —. Of Mice and Men. 1937. New York: Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 1993. Updike, John. Terrorist: A Novel. 2006. New York: Random House, Random House Trade Paperback, 2012. Van der Vliet Oloomi, Azareen. Call Me Zebra. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner Books, 2018. Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle. 1963. New York: Random House, Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2010. —. Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction. New York: Random House, Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2010. —. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. 1969. New York: Random House, Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2009. —. Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works. 1968. New York: Random House, Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest: A Novel. 1996. New York: Little, Brown, Back Bay Books, 2006. —. Oblivion: Stories. 2004. New York: Little, Brown, Back Bay Books, 2005. Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys. New York: Penguin Random House, Doubleday, 2019. —. The Underground Railroad. New York: Penguin Random House, Doubleday, 2016. —. Zone One: A Novel. 2011. New York: Penguin Random House, Anchor Books, 2012. Yu, Charles. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel. 2010. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2011. —. Interior Chinatown: A Novel. New York: Penguin Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, 2020. 2. Resources and Commentary Adams, James Truslow. The Epic of America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1931. Barrett, William. Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy. 1958. New York: Random House, Anchor Books, 1962. Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. 1942. Trans. Justin O’Brien. 1955. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, Vintage International Edition, 1991. Carpio, Glenda R. “Now Check It: Junot Díaz’s Wondrous Spanglish.” Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination. Ed. Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar. 257-90. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2016. Churchwell, Sarah. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby. Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 2013. 4 Cowart, David. “Thirteen Ways of Looking: Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 56.3 (2015): 241-54. —. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Crassweller, Robert D. Trujillo: The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Cullen, Jim. The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Dinnen, Zara. The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture. Literature Now. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. Ed. Walter Kaufmann. 1956. Rev ed. 1975. Penguin Group, Plume Book, 2004. The Facts On File Companion to the American Short Story. Ed. Abby H. P. Werlock and James P. Werlock. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. New York: Infobase Publishing, Facts On File, 2010. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack Up. Ed. Edmund Wilson. 1945. New York: New Directions, New Directions Paperbook, 1993. Foner, Eric. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. New York: W. W. Norton, 2015. Funk, Wolfgang. “Found Objects: Narrative (as) Reconstruction in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.” The Aesthetics of Authenticity: Medial Constructions of the Real. Ed. Wolfgang Funk, Florian Gross, and Irmtraud Huber. 41-61. Cultural and Media Studies. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2012. Grant, J. Kerry. A Companion to The Crying